Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday granting Russian citizenship to former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Driving the news: Snowden fled the United States and was given asylum in Russia after revealing classified documents about the U.S. government's mass surveillance program in 2013.
The U.S. State Department expressed concern Wednesday that Americans with dual citizenship with Russia could be conscripted by Moscow to help fight its war against Ukraine. “Russia may refuse to acknowledge dual nationals’ U.S. citizenship, deny their access to U.S. consular assistance, prevent their departure from Russia, and conscript dual nationals for military service,” the […]
United States Forces Korea (USFK) is a sub-unified command of the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM). USFK is the joint headquarters through which U.S. combat forces would be sent to South Korea/US (ROK/U.S.) Combined Forces Command’s (CFC) fighting components – are the combined ground, air, naval, marine, and special operations forces component commands.
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State, is providing nearly $327 million in additional humanitarian assistance to respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. The United States is the single largest donor of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and calls on other members of the international […]
Hundreds of Filipino workers are marooned at a U.S. military base on an island in the Indian Ocean because of a dispute between their employer, a major American contractor, and the Philippine government over their wages, according to employees and Philippine officials.